The 2007 Devil’s Kitchen Reading Awards in Poetry and Prose The Department of English at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and GRASSROOTS, SIUC’s undergraduate literary magazine, are pleased to announce the 2007 Devil’s Kitchen Reading Awards. One book of poetry and one book of prose (novel, short fiction, or literary nonfiction) will be selected from submissions of titles published in 2006, and the winning authors will...

The Writer Short Story Contest www.writermag.com Prizes: $1,000, first place; $300, second place; $200, third place. The first-place entry, along with the finalist judge’s comments, will be published in The Writer magazine. All three winning entries will be posted on The Writer Web site, www.writermag.com. Entry fee $10 per entry, payable to The Writer. Payments must be in U.S. funds drawn from a U.S. bank. Deadline Postmarked by June 30,...

The Ledge 2007 Fiction Awards Competition PRIZES: First prize: $1000 and publication in The Ledge Magazine. Second prize: $250 and publication in The Ledge Magazine. Third prize: $100 and publication in The Ledge Magazine. ENTRY FEE: $10 for the first story; $6 for each additional story. $18 subscription (two issues) to The Ledge gains free entry for the first story. ALL STORIES must be previously unpublished and not exceed 7,500 words....

Starcherone Books Contest The 2007-08 contest, offering $1000 and publication with Starcherone Books, is now accepting entries. Contest is open to story collections, novels, or indeterminate prose works up to 400 pages. Manuscripts will be blind-judged; the author’s name should appear on the first of two title pages and nowhere else in the manuscript. There is an administrative fee of $30. Please do not send cash. The postmark deadline is...

Backwards City Review announces its third-annual literary awards, with top prizes of $500 and publication in Backwards City Review #6, due out this fall. The entry-fee is $15 and includes a year’s subscription to the journal. The deadline for entries is May 15, 2007. You can find full details on the web. All themes and genres are accepted, and all entries are considered for publication. Online submissions are, as always, highly...

The Department of English at Virginia Commonwealth University is pleased to announce its call for submissions for the Sixth Annual VCU First Novelist Award. The Fifth Annual VCU First Novelist Award, for a book published in 2005, will go to Karen Fisher for her novel A Sudden Country, published by Random House. The award will be presented at the First Novelist Forum, to be held in the fall of 2006 at VCU. Previous awards have gone to Lorraine...